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Dynamic Maneuverability Analysis: A Preliminary Application on an Autonomous Underwater Reconfigurable Vehicle

Journal

APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Volume 11, Issue 10, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app11104469

Keywords

underwater autonomous reconfigurable vehicles; dynamic maneuverability analysis; underwater robotics

Funding

  1. Project SUONO-Safe Underwater Operations iN Oceans - Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research [SCN00306]
  2. Project RUVIFIST (Reconfigurable Underwater Vehicle for Inspection, Free-floating Intervention and Suvey Tasks) - University of Pisa
  3. POC MISE program of the Italian Ministry of Economic Development
  4. Project RUVIFIST (Reconfigurable Underwater Vehicle for Inspection, Free-floating Intervention and Suvey Tasks) - University of Siena
  5. Project RUVIFIST (Reconfigurable Underwater Vehicle for Inspection, Free-floating Intervention and Suvey Tasks) - University of Firenze

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Autonomous Underwater Reconfigurable Vehicles (AURVs) represent a breakthrough in underwater system technologies by autonomously changing configurations. The UNIFI DIEF AURV is designed with two extreme configurations for different types of tasks, and a novel dynamic maneuverability analysis formula provides a theoretical basis for these configurations.
Since the development of the first autonomous underwater vehicles, the demanded tasks for subsea operations have become more and more challenging as, for instance, intervention, maintenance and repair of seabed installations, in addition to surveys. As a result, the development of autonomous underwater reconfigurable vehicles (AURVs) with the capability of interacting with the surrounding environment and autonomously changing the configuration, according to the task at hand, can represent a real breakthrough in underwater system technologies. Driven by these considerations, an innovative AURV has been designed by the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Florence (named as UNIFI DIEF AURV), capable of efficiently reconfiguring its shape according to the task at hand. In particular, the UNIFI DIEF AURV has been provided with two extreme configurations: a slender (survey) configuration for long navigation tasks, and a stocky (hovering) configuration designed for challenging goals as intervention operations. In order to observe the several dynamic features for the two different configurations, a novel formulation for the dynamic maneuverability analysis (DMA) of an AURV, adapting Yoshikawa's well-known manipulability theory for robotic arms, is proposed in this work. More specifically, we introduce a novel analysis which relates the vehicle body-fixed accelerations with the rotational speed of each thruster, taking into account also the AURV dynamic model for each configuration and the propulsion system.

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